Nevertheless, as the ideas are taking shape, his approach is regularly phagocyted by other styles, particularly ambient music. It’s this growing absorption, this occasional and soothing shock of the opposites that fascinates us so much on Second Thought, his new cassette.
12k. Label of the month: RVNG Intl.
Matt Werth has lived in New York since 2002, and he's acutely aware of the city's rich history of musical and artistic cross-pollination.

It's a legacy that stretches back to the downtown scene of the '60s and '70s, when artists got into music and musicians dabbled in art, and all kinds of disciplines—dance, poetry, film, literature, music—were mixed in one creative broth. Werth, who has been running RVNG Intl. for ten years, cites Lovely Music Ltd, an avant-garde label that's been a bastion of such mingling for nearly four decades, as one of his key inspirations. Sharply intelligent but easygoing, almost everything about Werth seems at odds with his label's esoteric leanings. He's rakish and shaggy-haired, with an unhurried drawl.

He spent his youth in Little Rock, Arkansas, collecting hardcore zines and playing bass in drugged-out psych bands. RVNG could be considered a modern-day torchbearer to Lovely Music. Werth's modesty disguises the efforts that go into every RVNG release.
Label of the month: RVNG Intl.
Label of the month: UntilMyHeartStops. There's something unmistakably genuine about UntilMyHeartStops, the label run by Leif Knowles (better known as Leif) and Joe Ellis.

Their records are, on a basic level, 4/4 dance music made for DJs, but they're a far cry from party fodder—most are dark and subtle, with an ambient streak. All of them have a left-field, surrealistic edge, but never any pretense of being avant-garde. While so many labels pounce on tracks that are likable or effective, Knowles and Ellis home in on things they simply want to have on vinyl for themselves, and which probably wouldn't see the light of day otherwise. "We would try to pick stuff that's a little bit awkward, tunes that other labels probably won't want," says Ellis. "One of the names we were going to call the label was 'awkward silences,' but I think it had already been taken.
" UntilMyHeartStops (or "uhms" as Ellis calls it) is fueled by this love for misfit tracks. UMHS and Freerotation are deeply intertwined at this point.

The group reveals with this second album his love of improvised and energetic pop without compromising its appetite for sound experimentation … Playing on the volume and energy of rock, drawing its influences from Stravinsky to Sonic Youth, not to mention there between 2 and all around (The Necks, Godspeed, …), the trio emphasizes in it listening, availability, initiatives or coups d’état … Toc is constantly looking to work a sound material in which the identity of the instruments disappear, leaving the hollow reappear in the texture.
Planet Mu Records. ROOM40. Bad Sekta - About. What We Are - Bad Sekta is a collection of solid-state entities, currently operating together as a record label / semi-collective.

We specialise in uncovering new and interesting electronic music and video from the more individual / extreme ends of the spectrum and we hope to continue creating and releasing until we re-integrate with the collective consciousness. History - Bad Sekta was founded as an independent outlet for underground electronic music and video by Will (Phuq) in 2005. Tom (Machinochrist) came on board to help run the label in 2007. Since our inception, we've collected loads of wicked artists, made some good friends and managed a few releases along the way.
Jarring Effects - label indépendant.